Thanks again Robson! On Feb 27, 2:57 am, Robson Dantas <[email protected]> wrote: > Great resource Prashant! > > Just want to add another lines which might help: > > 1 - Opensocial extension for firebug - helps to debug, and allows to inject > javascript without needing to reload the > page:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13124 > > 2 - OSDE is a great Eclipse Plugin to develop Opensocial > Apps:http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-development-environment/ > > Regards, > > Robson Dantas > > 2010/2/24 Prashant (Google) <[email protected]> > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Dhaval Pancholi <[email protected]> > > Date: Feb 24, 12:33 pm > > > I have come through many posts where they take > > you step by step how to write an orkut application but there are very > > very few posts which help developers to debug an orkut application. > > > Following few debugging tips always work for me. > > > 1) IMP. point Check whether your new xml is been loaded. orkut always > > takes xml fom cache so whenever you upload your new xml it does'nt > > come from your server it comes from orkut cache. So Solution append > > &bpc=1 in your xml url so that your entire url looks like > >http://www.yourdomain.com/abc.xml?bpc=1 > > To be totally sure that my new xml is been loaded i generally append > > version number and have an alert in the first function of my xml which > > points me out my mxl version alert(' v-1.1'); > > alert(' v-1.2'); and etc. > > > 2) Use Firebug-firefox addon to show you your javascript errors. > > > 3) If you get error 500 Internal Server Error. Check your url you > > submitted to orkut in a stand alone page. There might be a case your > > server may be at fault. > > > 4) Now in profile view if you are calling some json data with url > > using profile templates check that url in a stand alone. to see > > whether your file outputs proper json formatted string. > > > 5) Many times orkut returns us an object in a callback function now > > this is very frustrating thing now how on earth would i know what data > > that object contains. Trust me there are many times where you would > > want to use the returned object. So following function i use which > > gives me all the properties and methods of the object which helps me a > > lot. > > > Pass any object in this function and your would get all the properties > > and methods in the alert box. > > > function popUpProperties(inobj) { > > var html=""; > > for (objprop in inobj) { > > html=html+objprop + ' => ' + inobj[objprop] + '\n'; > > } > > alert(html); > > > } > > > 6) For the last one this will not help you debug but it will > > definitely help you not freak out. There are many posts telling i got > > your token has been expired.{I posted the same questions few months > > ago :) } So in this case here is what you do. You logout of your > > sandbox account and then you log in again and then start working with > > your application. Your authorization token seems to get destroyed when > > you clear your > > cache etc. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Orkut Developer Forum" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<opensocial-orkut%2Bunsubscrib > > [email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
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